Sale 8525
London, South Kensington
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6 October 1999
Price realised
GBP 4,370
Estimate
A fine Tabriz carpet of Shah-Abbas design, North-West Persia The light terracotta field with overall design of bold multicoloured palmettes and fleur-de-Lys linked by angular flowering vine within delicate palmette and leafy tendrils, in broad indigo border of bold palmettes and angular floral sprays between ivory palmette vine and blue floral meander stripes, outer plain stripe, small old repairs on edges 446cm. x 352cm.(14ft.8in. x 11ft.7in.)
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